This was a lot of fun and so much to learn! Why is 🏴England named after the Angles and not the Saxons? Does 🏴"Welsh" really mean slave? We didn't know that! And where was the original 🏴Scotland? These questions answered in this video and many more! It's so fascinating to learn more in-depth about the origins of the English language and history of the United Kingdom. As we say in this episode, we could do numerous episodes on this topic and ALWAYS learn something new. Learning is awesome! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us! 😊 I learn stuff from you amazing ladies that I wouldn't learn about otherwise because, I wouldn't click on it and it wouldn't come across my feed! 😂 Glad to have you back! Now to watch the other new ones because, I didn't have internet for a few weeks! 😅
@@JacquelineBarnes-u5y There are several dialects as they are called in the USA. Boston and New York are heavily influenced by their Italian element, that is why their dialect is gruff, and antisocial!
@@eddhardy1054The Germanic English have been here far longer than any of the invading Celts. Doric and geordie related Proto English languages are around 4,000 to 5,000 tears old Doric was supposedly spoken in Greece. Whist the Celts invaded from Ireland after the Romans left these isles. The Eatern Europenas were here long before the portuguese/Spanish celts that make up all of the smaller people in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Wels the etymological word from which Welsh leaps means catfish in old German/old English. It comes from the older German Wal which is the shortened proto germanic English word for Whale. So the welsh are catfish, or whales in proto English Doric (Aberdeen) or Geordie (Newcastle upon Tyne.)
@@no-oneinparticular7264 You would still be speaking a rather complicated and "backward" semi-German language, if we Danes hadn't very unselfishly offered you poor folks in England some much needed linguistic aid 😂
Yes, I knew about Walnuts, but I am an etymology geek. Did you know that Test, Testify, Attest, Intestate and Testicle are all derived from the same Latin word, Testis, meaning Witness. Seriously, look it up, i'm not talking bollocks.
@DastorkM You are correct. @DastorkM I should have checked Etymology Online before posting. Tête, from the Latin, testa (via old French, teste) meaning a cooking a cooking pot. Also used for scientific, metallurgical and alchemic "testing" of substances Testa and Testis are, of course, two different and unrelated Latin nouns.
@@DastorkM This is a knotty one; the French 'tête' comes from the Latin 'testa', which means a cooking pot. The formal Roman name for the head was 'caput', but the slang term seems to have spread into the provincial dialects of Latin more readily. Same thing with 'felis' vs 'catus', or 'equus' vs 'caballus'; the first is a traditional 'educated' term, the second a more vernacular usage. So in Modern French, 'cat' is 'chat' and 'horse' is 'cheval'.
Many people call French a beautiful language (Along with the other romance languages) but to my ears, Welsh above Scots and Irish Gaelic, sounds soft, melodic, comforting almost like a warm blanket that wraps around you. Maybe I'm weird, but its how I feel!
To an old Swede like me, French still feels elegant and classy. But that's not always the same as beautiful. Also, there are many French dialects, some more throaty than others :)
I agree. Gaelic (Scottish and Irish both) are my favourite languages. I don't actually like French (I prefer German over French, heck, German comes directly behind the Gaelics and Scottish English for me)
10:20 Since I grew up in southwestern Germany near the Swiss border, I knew about the word "welsch" (in Switzerland it was and is often used for the French speaking part, in the Alemannic dialects spoken in southwestern Germany it referred in former times to the French respectively Burgundian neighbors, and the walnut was also known as "Welschnuss". Allegedly it first referred to the Celtic tribe of the Volcae, originally settling in what is now central Germany, but then migrating to the region around the Rhone valley, where they got romanized. Later it was used first for romanized Celts in general, then for the people in Gaul (including Romans and Celts), then for people speaking Roman languages or general for speakers of a different language living west of the Germanic language speaking tribes.
It's incredible that this channel has only 113k subscribers, it's more entertaining than many other channels with a lot more subscribers. There's a lot of people missing out.
Absolutely loved this, filled in lots of blanks that I didn’t know so a huge thank you for educating me!! I also wanna say a massive thanks for the live premiere’s, it shows you’re real people who genuinely care about your viewers and subscribers and have worked so hard at building a great community, it really sets you apart from others, especially considering you stay up until all hours to make it possible, just to suit your British and European viewers, I really appreciate it! Hope you have the best Thanksgiving!
@ you mean a lot to me and I know I speak for many! You’re diamonds and rarities in this modern era of social media, the human touch is so important and you prove it constantly! Thank you!
I’m English and I knew a lot of that but I certainly did learn more. Thanks ladies that was fun, especially Natasha’s laughter. It’s 9.15am and you brightened my day already. Thank you 😊😊
Brittany was predominantly settled by Britons from what is now Cornwall, Devon and Wales - lots of names there link back to that (such as the Cornouaille region and Domnonea / Domnonée - that's named after Dumnonia which is the historic name of Devon and Cornwall and where the term Devon originates). Shetland's postcode is ZE
England being named for the Angles who settled here is taught in history at school. There is a board game called Britannia which will teach you all this in a fun way. It's a game based on British history that is similar to Risk in some ways but pieces representing different sects only start on certain rounds that represent years.
Hey Girls, great video! Happy Thanks Giving and I will say a" Thank you" to you and other like minded Americans out there for all the things I've learnt about my homeland (or been reminded of) since I started watching reaction videos. School days are way behind me but you're never too old to learn. 🥰 Oh and no I didn't know about the walnuts! 🤣 Xx
That was fascinating. Thank you girlies I love learning with you. There was alot I didn't know even about the walnuts. This is the history that should be taught in schools. I love how you both are so interested about England. Love to you both ❤❤
I just wanna stop for moment to say how wonderful Natasha’s hair looks. Beautiful colour and slightly longer than when I last watched one of your videos. Amazing and looks fabulous!
I will admit that the walnut fact was new to me. Most of the rest covered things I vaguely knew, but couldn't have necessarily told you. A lot of the old names for areas still exist in certain contexts - for example refering to the geographical location of England as 'Albion' in somewhat poetic writings or speeches. There is a scottish political party which was formed in 2021 called 'Alba'
My mother was born in 1923 in Llanelli and didn't speak English until she started school at age 5. She told me that when she was little, onion-sellers from Brittany would come across (riding bicycles and with strings of onions around their necks). The Welsh could communicate with the Bretons, despite their languages not being exactly the same. To me, it sounded like the way a Swede and a Norwegian would communicate.
Can be mind blowing how far back our traceable history goes and how words and language changes over that time, great episode its good to learn - stay safe
Hi ladies, I really enjoyed your video this morning, and to be honest, I was watching natashas cheekyness and Debbie laughing all the way through. Stay cheeky, ladies ❤ 🇬🇧
The oddity that Rob missed out was the fact that Scotland was sometimes referred to as North Britain. As an example the Scots Greys cavalry regiment that took place in a famous cavalry charge at the battle of Waterloo (There's a very famous painting of the event) were also known as the Royal North British Dragoons.
The Hotel that is part of Edinburgh Waverley Station was called the North British Hotel when owned by the Railway Company and later British Transport Hotels, part of British Railways/BR. Privitisation led to all the hotels sold off and standards dropped along with the catering on trains which BTH supplied. The Kippers on the breakfast menu on trains had long gone before BTH did due to passenger complaints about the smell, even more complaints from passengers that loved Kippers.
If you check ship's manifests for the thousands of Scots who emigrated to have a life and not just an existence, they were usually called North British of the Scots race. English were English of course and nobody from the three remaining colonies is shocked by that.
This was interesting.I'm a Dane and the word Eng here means 'meadow'.For some reason I though England meant 'Land of the meadow'.It's nice to hear the correct explanation.Good vid 👍
The British language you referred to that has disappeared is possibly Norn, which was spoken in the extreme Northern tip of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland. It's a Norse language similar to modern Scandinavian languages like Norwegian. It was still spoken as late as the early 20th century. I hope you find that interesting - although you might have known it already.
Cornish isn't exactly a 'dead' language, as there are still people who speak it and write in it; however, it hasn't been an effective language of any Cornish community since the end of the 18th century, remaining only as a spoken or written language by a scattering of individuals, some of which passed it on to their descendants. It experienced a revival in the early 1900s, and in 2010 was re-classified (by UNESCO) from 'extinct' to 'critically endangered'. The modern estimate is that a small number of Cornish people (and others) speak Cornish as a 'second language' and a very small minority of families, raise their children to speak Cornish as their first language.
I was in Venice many years ago and had left my watch in the hotel. I approached a couple in St. Marks square and said"excuse me but do you speak English". The lady said No! we speak American. Sorry ladies but I got very imperious and said"I'm sorry but I don't think there is any such language as American recognized any where on earth".
Sit down class it's more learning in school with Teachers Natasha and Debbie. Pin those ears back and take notes. Love thier lessons were always learning with them. From the UK they are definitely always learning me things I never knew. Love you both and thank you❤
Good Morning Girls - like the T Shirt Natasha! Well, I'm not going to claim I knew most of that, except the bit about Angles of course and which Countries make up the UK of course! Definitely didn't know about Walnuts though. Thank you both for another funny, informative video - stay safe and happy til the next one.
If you do have walnuts they are very useful if you have some wooden furniture with little scratches in it. Just rub the walnut over the scratches a few times and they'll disappear.
England is actually named Meadowland. When the vikings came to England, they had the habit of naming the land they came to after what they saw in that new land. Like they named America Vinland (Grapeland) since the saw a lot of grapes there. In England they saw lots of meadows. The Norwegian word for meadow is ENG. So the named it England. The land of meadows. Could be Engmark, as mark also means the same as land (Denmark, -the land of the Danes). So England means Meadowland.
Scythia would have included north Europe, as it's beyond the Roman Empire. The name of the area Scandinavia was Scania, so it's fairly close in form to confuse or connect.
My husband is Welsh and my favourite Welsh word is 'cwtch' (pronounced coutch), which means cuddle. Today, I am remembering the great Freddie Mercury on the anniversary of his passing. Gone but never forgotten 💔
My family have been Welsh forever and a day, until me... now I'm the enemy 😢 If Welsh ended up meaning slave... then it could only have meant the Welsh they invaded... the English 😮 ❤ from Northeast England ❤️
I did know about the links between Cornish, Welsh and Breton languages. My g-g-grandmother whose first language was Welsh was able to converse with the Breton onion sellers who came from street to street as their language was similar.
not watched yet just started but i love my county and our name we get terrible stick sometimes but i think we as a whole are accepting and good people we have a history but who doesn't ❤
The farm my mother was born on , near Grangemouth , Stirlingshire was part of the Earl of Zetland's estate though it was hundreds of miles from Shetland.
There was a lot that I DID know but also much that I didn't. I confess, I've done a great deal of research into Britain in the 1st millennium, and also recently subscribed to Rob Words (but that was mainly due to my fascination with linguistics and etymology).
I started a comment, just wanted to know if I may refer to you as my little sisters? Loved the reaction to the drumming vid, the gun carriage competition. When you next visit your father, please thank him for his service, from a lowly sailor, and the sailors dad from ww2, gnr heavy harry in New Guinea. Funny but I could never make my old man proud of me. Funny that in Aus, no one gave a crap. They just went on like nothing happened. I’m talking Whitchurch one you want to pick. I met an American person asking for directions. I gave them and was asked if I served. Yes. The thank you followed. I broke down in front of a complete stranger. My own country never thanked me for service, in fact it screwed me over because of it. You have x amount in retirement funds, you have to live on that before we can grant you unemployment .
There is a small island to the west of the Hebrides called St Kilda. Its etymology is a bit of a mystery because there is no record of any saint with that name. One theory is that it results from a copying error of Skilda and that it derived from a Norse word "skildir" meaning "shields" referring to the shape of some nearby islands.
Thank you Natasha and Debbie for your informative videos. Thank goodness eventually someone adopted a name for us that is easy to pronounce. I dread to think how mainland Europe has changed through the centuries! Eg. We used to holiday in beautiful Yugoslavia which is Yugoslavia no more but several separate countries now ❤
The 6 Celtic languages are divided into 2 categories: Brythonic (Britannic, British, from Britain) & Goidelic (Gaelic, from Ireland). The three Brythonic languages are Welsh, Cornish & Breton (from Brittany, France) & the three Goidelic languages are Irish (Gaelic), Scottish (Scottish Gaelic) & Manx (from the Isle of Man)
Scottish Gaelic is never called just Scottish. In Scotland it is referred to as simply Gaelic or Gàidhlig, as opposed to the Irish name Gaeilge. The reason it is not called just Scottish is because there is Scottish English as well, and the language historically spoken in the very South and the East of Scotland became known as Scots.
myself and partner have celebrated Thanksgiving a good few times. A couple of times in Washington DC and some in really Rural PA with our American friends. First time we brought loads of British chocolate it went down a treat.
The word Welsh, and its foreign equivalents, tracks the Roman frontier across Europe, and includes Walloons, Welsch in Switzerland and Wallachia in Romania. it sort-of means "Foreigners within the wall" ie. Roman frontier.
You two should really watch the fascinating channel Words Unravelled, where Rob of RobWords talks to the American Jess about the origins of words and expressions in English and the language differences between UK and the US 😊
Cornish definitely still exists as a language. I encountered a Cornish speaking witch in a new-age shop a few years back who referred to me, perhaps jokingly, as an outsider from England, even though I thought I was still in England, being in Cornwall. She felt differently.
I love a cheeky bit of Natasha & Debbie with a cheeky breakfast on a cheeky Sunday. Can I ask that you link to the original video and not just the channel 💜
Linking the channel is more helpful as less people will "rewatch" the same video & more will check out other videos. This is what we are asked to do by several channels we react to.
Places like Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and all of Ireland still speak the old languages and use them on their road signs along with English as we know it
This was fascinating but also confusing😂. I think I’ll watch it again. No I didn’t know the origin of the word walnut! It’s definitely not just you Natasha I suspect that’s a very rarely known fact!
I knew some of it, I knew about Wales and the Irish moving to Scotland. The fun one, which again I did know was Great was about size not brilliant, to differentiate from Brittany. Many towns in England have Great in front of their name, for the same reason
The Welsh word for England actually means the lost or stolen lands. Picti is also related to a Goidelic word meaning the ancient ones or the first people
This was a lot of fun and so much to learn! Why is 🏴England named after the Angles and not the Saxons? Does 🏴"Welsh" really mean slave? We didn't know that! And where was the original 🏴Scotland? These questions answered in this video and many more! It's so fascinating to learn more in-depth about the origins of the English language and history of the United Kingdom. As we say in this episode, we could do numerous episodes on this topic and ALWAYS learn something new. Learning is awesome! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
And we Welsh or Cymraeg call the English Saeson or Saxon!
Hi Nat & Deb, I alway thought that the word Welsh just ment stranger/foreigner in Old English
Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us! 😊 I learn stuff from you amazing ladies that I wouldn't learn about otherwise because, I wouldn't click on it and it wouldn't come across my feed! 😂 Glad to have you back! Now to watch the other new ones because, I didn't have internet for a few weeks! 😅
@@JacquelineBarnes-u5y There are several dialects as they are called in the USA. Boston and New York are heavily influenced by their Italian element, that is why their dialect is gruff, and antisocial!
@@eddhardy1054The Germanic English have been here far longer than any of the invading Celts. Doric and geordie related Proto English languages are around 4,000 to 5,000 tears old Doric was supposedly spoken in Greece. Whist the Celts invaded from Ireland after the Romans left these isles. The Eatern Europenas were here long before the portuguese/Spanish celts that make up all of the smaller people in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Wels the etymological word from which Welsh leaps means catfish in old German/old English. It comes from the older German Wal which is the shortened proto germanic English word for Whale. So the welsh are catfish, or whales in proto English Doric (Aberdeen) or Geordie (Newcastle upon Tyne.)
The UK has such a rich history and we love learning more and more!
And we aren't seeking reparations from modern day jutes, angles, saxons and the normans for invasion either!!.
@@no-oneinparticular7264 You would still be speaking a rather complicated and "backward" semi-German language, if we Danes hadn't very unselfishly offered you poor folks in England some much needed linguistic aid 😂
Don't worry, you're not the first American who didn't realise the English language came from England.
Many Americans still don't 😂😂
Yes, I knew about Walnuts, but I am an etymology geek.
Did you know that Test, Testify, Attest, Intestate and Testicle are all derived from the same Latin word, Testis, meaning Witness. Seriously, look it up, i'm not talking bollocks.
Now you're just speaking walnuts 😊
I was taught that a long time ago , it would make for a bit of fun in court instead of using a bible , if they still do. 😂
Test comes from French TESTE , head in English
@DastorkM
You are correct.
@DastorkM I should have checked Etymology Online before posting.
Tête, from the Latin, testa (via old French, teste) meaning a cooking a cooking pot. Also used for scientific, metallurgical and alchemic "testing" of substances
Testa and Testis are, of course, two different and unrelated Latin nouns.
@@DastorkM This is a knotty one; the French 'tête' comes from the Latin 'testa', which means a cooking pot. The formal Roman name for the head was 'caput', but the slang term seems to have spread into the provincial dialects of Latin more readily.
Same thing with 'felis' vs 'catus', or 'equus' vs 'caballus'; the first is a traditional 'educated' term, the second a more vernacular usage. So in Modern French, 'cat' is 'chat' and 'horse' is 'cheval'.
Many people call French a beautiful language (Along with the other romance languages) but to my ears, Welsh above Scots and Irish Gaelic, sounds soft, melodic, comforting almost like a warm blanket that wraps around you. Maybe I'm weird, but its how I feel!
I love Welsh too my Granny spoke it so it has a soft spot in my heart
To an old Swede like me, French still feels elegant and classy. But that's not always the same as beautiful.
Also, there are many French dialects, some more throaty than others :)
I agree with you, I love the lilting sounds of Welsh too.
I agree. Gaelic (Scottish and Irish both) are my favourite languages. I don't actually like French (I prefer German over French, heck, German comes directly behind the Gaelics and Scottish English for me)
So glad you're reacting to Rob's videos ladies. He's wonderful . Love and hugs ❤
Robb is always brilliant - subscribe!
Cornish is revived, spoken by a few thousands.
A lot of street signs have English & Cornish on them down here ;)
Back in the day the number of Cornish speakers could be counted on the six fingers of your hand.
10:20 Since I grew up in southwestern Germany near the Swiss border, I knew about the word "welsch" (in Switzerland it was and is often used for the French speaking part, in the Alemannic dialects spoken in southwestern Germany it referred in former times to the French respectively Burgundian neighbors, and the walnut was also known as "Welschnuss". Allegedly it first referred to the Celtic tribe of the Volcae, originally settling in what is now central Germany, but then migrating to the region around the Rhone valley, where they got romanized. Later it was used first for romanized Celts in general, then for the people in Gaul (including Romans and Celts), then for people speaking Roman languages or general for speakers of a different language living west of the Germanic language speaking tribes.
It's incredible that this channel has only 113k subscribers, it's more entertaining than many other channels with a lot more subscribers. There's a lot of people missing out.
Absolutely loved this, filled in lots of blanks that I didn’t know so a huge thank you for educating me!!
I also wanna say a massive thanks for the live premiere’s, it shows you’re real people who genuinely care about your viewers and subscribers and have worked so hard at building a great community, it really sets you apart from others, especially considering you stay up until all hours to make it possible, just to suit your British and European viewers, I really appreciate it!
Hope you have the best Thanksgiving!
That means a lot. Thank you ♥️♥️
@ you mean a lot to me and I know I speak for many! You’re diamonds and rarities in this modern era of social media, the human touch is so important and you prove it constantly! Thank you!
I’m English and I knew a lot of that but I certainly did learn more. Thanks ladies that was fun, especially Natasha’s laughter. It’s 9.15am and you brightened my day already. Thank you 😊😊
Thanks for the channel and the videos. I'm English and we don't do 'thanksgiving' as holiday hear, but it is never the wrong time to thank people :)
Brittany was predominantly settled by Britons from what is now Cornwall, Devon and Wales - lots of names there link back to that (such as the Cornouaille region and Domnonea / Domnonée - that's named after Dumnonia which is the historic name of Devon and Cornwall and where the term Devon originates).
Shetland's postcode is ZE
Swede here, learned a bit or two today and in the spirit of thanksgiving, thank you for great reaction and your channel.
England being named for the Angles who settled here is taught in history at school. There is a board game called Britannia which will teach you all this in a fun way. It's a game based on British history that is similar to Risk in some ways but pieces representing different sects only start on certain rounds that represent years.
Hey Girls, great video! Happy Thanks Giving and I will say a" Thank you" to you and other like minded Americans out there for all the things I've learnt about my homeland (or been reminded of) since I started watching reaction videos. School days are way behind me but you're never too old to learn. 🥰 Oh and no I didn't know about the walnuts! 🤣 Xx
he missed out the little island that was green. it's lundy island, which comes from the old norse word lundi which means puffin which is a sea bird
That was fascinating. Thank you girlies I love learning with you. There was alot I didn't know even about the walnuts. This is the history that should be taught in schools. I love how you both are so interested about England. Love to you both ❤❤
Etymology is a fascinating window into history with much silliness.
I just wanna stop for moment to say how wonderful Natasha’s hair looks. Beautiful colour and slightly longer than when I last watched one of your videos. Amazing and looks fabulous!
Thanks for uploading, ladies. Have a happy Thanksgiving. Liked the thing about the walnut, btw.
Thanks ladies,Very educational video never new any of this ,never to old to learn about history .
I will admit that the walnut fact was new to me. Most of the rest covered things I vaguely knew, but couldn't have necessarily told you. A lot of the old names for areas still exist in certain contexts - for example refering to the geographical location of England as 'Albion' in somewhat poetic writings or speeches. There is a scottish political party which was formed in 2021 called 'Alba'
My mother was born in 1923 in Llanelli and didn't speak English until she started school at age 5. She told me that when she was little, onion-sellers from Brittany would come across (riding bicycles and with strings of onions around their necks). The Welsh could communicate with the Bretons, despite their languages not being exactly the same. To me, it sounded like the way a Swede and a Norwegian would communicate.
Can be mind blowing how far back our traceable history goes and how words and language changes over that time, great episode its good to learn - stay safe
Hi ladies, I really enjoyed your video this morning, and to be honest, I was watching natashas cheekyness and Debbie laughing all the way through. Stay cheeky, ladies ❤ 🇬🇧
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Another amazing video by you two amazing ladies. Love learning new things with you both.
That was very educational and enjoyable. I’ve learnt a great deal about the UK from your videos, and also other countries you’ve looked at.
The oddity that Rob missed out was the fact that Scotland was sometimes referred to as North Britain. As an example the Scots Greys cavalry regiment that took place in a famous cavalry charge at the battle of Waterloo (There's a very famous painting of the event) were also known as the Royal North British Dragoons.
The Hotel that is part of Edinburgh Waverley Station was called the North British Hotel when owned by the Railway Company and later British Transport Hotels, part of British Railways/BR. Privitisation led to all the hotels sold off and standards dropped along with the catering on trains which BTH supplied. The Kippers on the breakfast menu on trains had long gone before BTH did due to passenger complaints about the smell, even more complaints from passengers that loved Kippers.
Only after the Union, when the Scots became British and the English stayed English not South British.
"Southern British" is an accent that linguists sometimes reference, but it refers to only the southern part of England in that context
If you check ship's manifests for the thousands of Scots who emigrated to have a life and not just an existence, they were usually called North British of the Scots race. English were English of course and nobody from the three remaining colonies is shocked by that.
Great post that I learnt from and enjoyed.
Hi how are you feeling today hope you have a great day Big thanks for all the osum videos
This was interesting.I'm a Dane and the word Eng here means 'meadow'.For some reason I though England meant 'Land of the meadow'.It's nice to hear the correct explanation.Good vid 👍
The British language you referred to that has disappeared is possibly Norn, which was spoken in the extreme Northern tip of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland. It's a Norse language similar to modern Scandinavian languages like Norwegian. It was still spoken as late as the early 20th century. I hope you find that interesting - although you might have known it already.
Cornish isn't exactly a 'dead' language, as there are still people who speak it and write in it; however, it hasn't been an effective language of any Cornish community since the end of the 18th century, remaining only as a spoken or written language by a scattering of individuals, some of which passed it on to their descendants.
It experienced a revival in the early 1900s, and in 2010 was re-classified (by UNESCO) from 'extinct' to 'critically endangered'. The modern estimate is that a small number of Cornish people (and others) speak Cornish as a 'second language' and a very small minority of families, raise their children to speak Cornish as their first language.
That was fascinating……and filled with facts this Brit didn’t know so thank you both
This was a great video. Definitely one to rewatch.
I was in Venice many years ago and had left my watch in the hotel. I approached a couple in St. Marks square and said"excuse me but do you speak English". The lady said No! we speak American. Sorry ladies but I got very imperious and said"I'm sorry but I don't think there is any such language as American recognized any where on earth".
Thanks to two Americans :) - there were so many things I didn't know (like the walnuts), but I did know about the Manx cats.
We can't remember this from school 45 years ago lol 😂 it's so complex we got a concise version so I'm learning more by watching this.
Sit down class it's more learning in school with Teachers Natasha and Debbie. Pin those ears back and take notes. Love thier lessons were always learning with them. From the UK they are definitely always learning me things I never knew. Love you both and thank you❤
I certainly did know that the name England comes from the Angles (I'm Swedish so it's close to home) but I wasn't aware of the walnut thing.
Happy Thanksgiving for Thursday, I miss my thanksgiving with my family, great video BTW ❤
Thank you 😊
Cheeky Natasha is fun Natasha! Thank you! 💙
I’m amazed what I’ve learned tonight,thanks
So kewl. Thanks for this new episode. Hope ur feeling better Debbie. SNUGS (( snuggles n hugs)) to u both
I did know this 😄 Rob presents it all very well though
Well, that was a lot of fun.
Thanks.😁😁
Love learning with you ❤️
Rob is amazing. I love his podcast
Very good vid as usual. Lots of love from York
Good Morning Girls - like the T Shirt Natasha!
Well, I'm not going to claim I knew most of that, except the bit about Angles of course and which Countries make up the UK of course! Definitely didn't know about Walnuts though.
Thank you both for another funny, informative video - stay safe and happy til the next one.
If you do have walnuts they are very useful if you have some wooden furniture with little scratches in it. Just rub the walnut over the scratches a few times and they'll disappear.
England is actually named Meadowland. When the vikings came to England, they had the habit of naming the land they came to after what they saw in that new land. Like they named America Vinland (Grapeland) since the saw a lot of grapes there.
In England they saw lots of meadows. The Norwegian word for meadow is ENG. So the named it England. The land of meadows.
Could be Engmark, as mark also means the same as land (Denmark, -the land of the Danes). So England means Meadowland.
The Vikings called it Britland.
@@snacks1184never heard that name before. You just invented that.
Love his channel. Better watching his videos in company .. thank you 👍
In Ireland, we call England "Sasana " which is translated as Saxony".
The Welsh call English people "Saeson" and their language is "Saesneg"
@@ftumschk Same with the Scottish Gaelic Sassenach.
Scythia would have included north Europe, as it's beyond the Roman Empire. The name of the area Scandinavia was Scania, so it's fairly close in form to confuse or connect.
My husband is Welsh and my favourite Welsh word is 'cwtch' (pronounced coutch), which means cuddle.
Today, I am remembering the great Freddie Mercury on the anniversary of his passing. Gone but never forgotten 💔
My family have been Welsh forever and a day, until me... now I'm the enemy 😢
If Welsh ended up meaning slave... then it could only have meant the Welsh they invaded... the English 😮
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
Odd... I would pronounce it cutsch.
Very interesting and educational video today. Very good.😊
I did know about the links between Cornish, Welsh and Breton languages. My g-g-grandmother whose first language was Welsh was able to converse with the Breton onion sellers who came from street to street as their language was similar.
Have a good thanksgiving x
not watched yet just started but i love my county and our name we get terrible stick sometimes but i think we as a whole are accepting and good people we have a history but who doesn't ❤
The farm my mother was born on , near Grangemouth , Stirlingshire was part of the Earl of Zetland's estate though it was hundreds of miles from Shetland.
There was a lot that I DID know but also much that I didn't. I confess, I've done a great deal of research into Britain in the 1st millennium, and also recently subscribed to Rob Words (but that was mainly due to my fascination with linguistics and etymology).
I started a comment, just wanted to know if I may refer to you as my little sisters? Loved the reaction to the drumming vid, the gun carriage competition. When you next visit your father, please thank him for his service, from a lowly sailor, and the sailors dad from ww2, gnr heavy harry in New Guinea. Funny but I could never make my old man proud of me. Funny that in Aus, no one gave a crap. They just went on like nothing happened. I’m talking Whitchurch one you want to pick. I met an American person asking for directions. I gave them and was asked if I served. Yes. The thank you followed. I broke down in front of a complete stranger. My own country never thanked me for service, in fact it screwed me over because of it. You have x amount in retirement funds, you have to live on that before we can grant you unemployment .
There is a small island to the west of the Hebrides called St Kilda. Its etymology is a bit of a mystery because there is no record of any saint with that name. One theory is that it results from a copying error of Skilda and that it derived from a Norse word "skildir" meaning "shields" referring to the shape of some nearby islands.
I didn’t know most of it. We certainly didn’t cover it in history. Thanks so much
Its been England hundreds of years its a good name
That it is ♥️
Thank you Natasha and Debbie for your informative videos. Thank goodness eventually someone adopted a name for us that is easy to pronounce. I dread to think how mainland Europe has changed through the centuries! Eg. We used to holiday in beautiful Yugoslavia which is Yugoslavia no more but several separate countries now ❤
Have a great thanksgiving girls xx❤❤
Fun fact, Germany is Saksa in finnish language still!
The Welsh word for the English is "Saeson".
Basically, "Saxon" but Welsh doesn't have the letter "X".
Angleland, after the angle tribe. Morphed into England over time. ( Love you two girls 👍, wish u a happy Xmas. God bless chicas.)
Happy Thanks Giving my dear American Cousins! 😊❤
The 6 Celtic languages are divided into 2 categories: Brythonic (Britannic, British, from Britain) & Goidelic (Gaelic, from Ireland). The three Brythonic languages are Welsh, Cornish & Breton (from Brittany, France) & the three Goidelic languages are Irish (Gaelic), Scottish (Scottish Gaelic) & Manx (from the Isle of Man)
Cheers for that mate, I always assumed Manx was Brythonic
Scottish Gaelic is never called just Scottish. In Scotland it is referred to as simply Gaelic or Gàidhlig, as opposed to the Irish name Gaeilge. The reason it is not called just Scottish is because there is Scottish English as well, and the language historically spoken in the very South and the East of Scotland became known as Scots.
I have heard some Welsh people refer to England as "occupied East Wales!
Thanks, ladies.
That was interesting. ❤❤
Thank you for watching ♥️
myself and partner have celebrated Thanksgiving a good few times. A couple of times in Washington DC and some in really Rural PA with our American friends. First time we brought loads of British chocolate it went down a treat.
The word Welsh, and its foreign equivalents, tracks the Roman frontier across Europe, and includes Walloons, Welsch in Switzerland and Wallachia in Romania. it sort-of means "Foreigners within the wall" ie. Roman frontier.
You two should really watch the fascinating channel Words Unravelled, where Rob of RobWords talks to the American Jess about the origins of words and expressions in English and the language differences between UK and the US 😊
Its also said that Lloegr means lost land that is the lands lost by the celts to the English or Saecsons.
Cornish definitely still exists as a language. I encountered a Cornish speaking witch in a new-age shop a few years back who referred to me, perhaps jokingly, as an outsider from England, even though I thought I was still in England, being in Cornwall. She felt differently.
Great vid learned loads from this one :) I'm an Angle btw...! Well a mongrel Angle by now..
check out a music video by "The Cheeky Girls". Is that the two of you in your younger days? 🤣
The Welsh language is growing
Happy Thanksgiving!
I nowhere knew the root of the Wha-. Very informative. PS, you two are super-cute together 😊
We called it sometimes Albion 😂 especially when involves perfide
Cornish, or Kernowek, is enjoying a resurgence. You may be thinking of Cumbric, formerly of Cumbria.
I watch Rob a lot, he has another channel called Words unravelled
I love a cheeky bit of Natasha & Debbie with a cheeky breakfast on a cheeky Sunday. Can I ask that you link to the original video and not just the channel 💜
Linking the channel is more helpful as less people will "rewatch" the same video & more will check out other videos. This is what we are asked to do by several channels we react to.
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow OK, I understand. Thanks for replying
I like your hair Natasha, it really suits you.
Kernow still exists ( just), it is very similar to Welsh.
Great video, as always.
Happy Thanksgiving
fascinating I knew some but also learned lots
Places like Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and all of Ireland still speak the old languages and use them on their road signs along with English as we know it
This was fascinating but also confusing😂. I think I’ll watch it again. No I didn’t know the origin of the word walnut! It’s definitely not just you Natasha I suspect that’s a very rarely known fact!
I knew some of it, I knew about Wales and the Irish moving to Scotland. The fun one, which again I did know was Great was about size not brilliant, to differentiate from Brittany. Many towns in England have Great in front of their name, for the same reason
The Welsh word for England actually means the lost or stolen lands. Picti is also related to a Goidelic word meaning the ancient ones or the first people
Debbie was this years old when she realised that for as long as she had known her, Natasha didn't know English meant from England.
this really simplified the history of the 5th century,
The word you’re looking for is “shwmae” (Hi, Hello ) Natasha. Or in some regions “s’mae”.